This paper was inspired by earlier research amongst teachers in parts of central Germany, which established that the informants had a relatively low level of sociolinguistic awareness. It has also been influenced by the ...

With the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, many people predicted the imminent collapse of the Cuban regime and some critics saw the Internet as playing a major part in that collapse. But this has simply not been ...

A study of three separate documents which demonstrate how code-switching operated in medieval England between the three principal languages used (Latin, Anglo-Norman, English). In addition to providing evidence of the ...

In the first half of the chapter I present some results of an empirical study of the norm knowledge of grammar-school teachers (to complement an earlier study carried out with teachers at another type of secondary school).

Study of a series of charters and documents from Lorraine (Salival; Toul) compared with the Old French Albucasis translation (also from Lorraine) from a linguistic perspective, focusing on the extent to which they demonstrate ...

This chapter argues that some widespread and deeply rooted beliefs about languages(s) are better described as ‘myths’ and reflect ideological positions rather than any objective linguistic facts. Amongst the terms which ...

This exhibition features refugees from Austria who settled in the UK, among them the violinist Norbert Brainin, the photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky, the dance teacher Stella Mann, and the composer Joseph Horowitz. ...

The objective of this study was to examine the effects of feeding system and breed on the content of the beneficial n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) in beef muscle. German Simmental (GS) ...